Contextualizing Lean Startup and Alternative Approaches for New Venture Creation: Introducing the Special Issue
Shaker A. Zahra,
Marc Gruber,
James G. Combs
Abstract:The Lean Startup movement fundamentally changed entrepreneurial education and the way new ventures evolve. While Steve Blank and other founders of the movement embraced academic ideas, the movement grew among practitioners largely disconnected from academic entrepreneurship research. The purposes of this special issue are (1) to better connect Lean Startup practice to academic entrepreneurship research and (2) to advance theory regarding Lean Startup practices and their outcomes. After a brief and personal sto… Show more
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